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Protect your cloud, virtual, and on-premises environments by implementing Veeam's powerful backup and replication technology

Key Features

  • Gain in-depth knowledge of CDP and hardened repositories that you can use in your virtual environment
  • Explore Veeam's monitoring and reporting utility - Veeam ONE - along with Linux proxy enhancements
  • Work with the new Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (Orchestrator) for testing failovers and backups

Book Description

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, making it a necessary skill for anyone responsible for securing virtual environments. This revised second edition of Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication is updated to cover Veeam version 11. The book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam, all while helping you master advanced concepts such as Continuous Data Protection (CDP), extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator.

Starting with Veeam essentials, including installation, best practices, and optimizations for Veeam Backup & Replication, you'll get to grips with the 3-2-1-1-0 rule to safeguard data. You'll understand how to set up a backup server, proxies, repositories, and more and then advance to cover a powerful feature of Veeam 11 – CDP. As you progress, you'll learn about immutability (also known as hardened repositories) and discover the best practices for creating them. Finally, you'll explore the new proxy option available in Linux and become well-versed with advanced topics such as extended object storage support, Veeam ONE enhancements, and Orchestrator.

By the end of this Veeam book, you'll be able to implement Veeam Backup & Replication for securing your environment and enabling disaster recovery.

What you will learn

  • Discover the advanced concepts of Veeam Backup & Replication 11
  • Master application optimization based on Veeam best practices
  • Get to grips with configuring CDP and working with repositories and proxies
  • Explore ways to protect your backups with immutable hardened repositories
  • Understand the enhancements to backups, instant recovery, and Linux proxies
  • Explore Veeam ONE enhancements
  • Become well-versed in using Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator

Who this book is for

This Veeam backup book is for IT professionals who have intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of virtualization as well as backups and backup applications. Anyone who needs a reference guide for learning the advanced features of Veeam Backup & Replication and how they are used, including best practices and optimizations, will also find this book useful.

Table of Contents

  1. Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication
  2. Second Edition
  3. Contributors
  4. About the author
  5. About the reviewers
  6. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
    4. Download the color images
    5. Conventions used
    6. Get in touch
    7. Share Your Thoughts
  7. Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations
  8. Chapter 1: Installing and Upgrading Veeam
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding the best practices and optimizations for Veeam installation
    3. Installing Veeam Backup & Replication v11a
    4. How to configure and optimize proxy servers
    5. How to set up repository servers for success
    6. Understanding the scale-out backup repository
    7. Upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication to v11a
    8. Summary
  9. Chapter 2: The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule – Keeping Data Safe
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Guest perspective from Rick Vanover of Veeam
    3. Introducing what the 3-2-1-1-0 rule is
    4. Importance of the 3-2-1-1-0 rule
    5. Understanding how the 3-2-1-1-0 rule applies to your backup strategy when setting up jobs
    6. Exploring what media is best suited for use with the 3-2-1-1-0 rule
    7. Scenario 1
    8. Scenario 2
    9. Scenario 3
    10. Scenario 4
    11. Scenario 5
    12. Summary
  10. Section 2: CDP and Immutability – Hardened Repositories, Backups, and Object Storage
  11. Chapter 3: CDP – Continuous Data Protection
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding CDP and what it is
    3. The backup server – Veeam CDP Coordinator Service
    4. Source and target hosts with the I/O filter
    5. CDP proxies
    6. CDP policies
    7. Determining the requirements and limitations of CDP
    8. Requirements
    9. Limitations
    10. Setting up CDP – the I/O filter
    11. Configuring CDP proxies and settings
    12. Understanding CDP policies for replication
    13. Summary
    14. Further reading
  12. Chapter 4: Immutability – Hardened Repositories
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding hardened repositories
    3. Learning how to configure hardened repositories in Veeam
    4. Learning how eliminating SSH protects the server
    5. Discovering how to configure backup jobs to use immutability with the hardened repositories
    6. Summary
    7. Further reading
  13. Chapter 5: Backup Enhancements – Jobs, Copy Jobs, Restores, and More
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding backup job enhancements and new features
    3. High-priority jobs
    4. Background GFS retention
    5. Orphaned GFS backup retention
    6. Deleted VM retention improvements
    7. Distinguishing the new features of backup copy jobs
    8. Time-based GFS retention
    9. GFS full creation time
    10. No quarterly backups
    11. Repository as a source
    12. Daily retention
    13. Understanding restores with Linux target support and expanded platforms
    14. Linux target support
    15. Linux FLR without a helper appliance
    16. Linux FLR performance improvements
    17. Expanded platform support
    18. Discovering other enhancements, including explorers
    19. Summary
    20. Further reading
  14. Chapter 6: Expanded Object Storage Support – Capacity and Archive Tiers
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding new object storage capacity and archive tiers
    3. Understanding object storage configuring capacity and archive tiers
    4. Discovering immutability with Amazon S3 Glacier and policy-based offloading
    5. Working with the archive tier for cost-optimized archiving and storage
    6. Summary
    7. Further reading
  15. Section 3: Linux Proxy Enhancements, Instant Recovery, Veeam ONE, and Orchestrator
  16. Chapter 7: Linux Proxy Enhancements
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding Linux proxy enhancements and what's new in v11a
    3. Understanding how the latest enhancements can help your organization
    4. A Linux proxy server can be physical or virtual
    5. More transport modes – NBD, Direct SAN, and Hot-Add
    6. Backup from storage snapshot (iSCSI, FC)
    7. Allow quick rollback/CBT restore
    8. Persistent data mover deployed
    9. Enhanced data mover security
    10. Certificate-based authentication instead of saved Linux credentials
    11. New elliptic curve (EC) cryptography – adds EC-based SSH key pairs such as Ed25519 or ECDSA
    12. Discovering the persistent data mover with enhanced security
    13. Discovering how credentials are the past and certificates are the future
    14. Special section by Rick Vanover from Veeam – future Linux capabilities and industry direction
    15. Summary
    16. Further reading
  17. Chapter 8: Understanding Instant Recovery
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Discovering the requirements and prerequisites for Instant Recovery
    3. Exploring Instant Recovery – what is It?
    4. Investigating and understanding the Instant Recovery process and steps
    5. Exploring the migration and cancellation steps for recovery
    6. Discovering what is new in Veeam Backup & Replication v11a
    7. Instant Recovery of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases
    8. Instant file share recovery
    9. Instant recovery of anything to Microsoft Hyper-V
    10. Summary
    11. Further reading
  18. Chapter 9: Introducing Veeam ONE v11a
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Exploring Veeam ONE – an overview
    3. Single-server architecture – typical deployment
    4. Distributed server architecture – advanced deployment
    5. Understanding Veeam ONE – installation and configuration
    6. Installation of Veeam ONE v11a
    7. Discovering monitoring – vSphere, vCloud, and Veeam
    8. Investigating and understanding reporting
    9. Exploring Veeam ONE for troubleshooting
    10. Investigating what is new in Veeam ONE v11a
    11. Major new features
    12. Enhanced Veeam Backup & Replication support
    13. Other enhancements
    14. Veeam ONE community resources
    15. Summary
    16. Further reading
  19. Chapter 10: Introducing Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator – What is it?
    3. Prerequisites for Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
    4. Installation of Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
    5. Configuring Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator
    6. Working with orchestration plans for DR
    7. Investigating scripts, reports, and dashboards
    8. Scripts
    9. Reports
    10. Dashboards
    11. Summary
    12. Further reading
    13. Why subscribe?
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